For all of you trying to use perception mapping, please understand it is not an effort to construct reality from perceptions surfaced in a meeting. Nobody wants to live in a world created by just perceptions. But rather the effort is to make sense of what more than 1 person in a group had as a perception and how it affects the thinking of a group and really intervening only so much to change that. Reality changes perceptions, and sometimes rarely perceptions do change reality, but you don’t necessarily try that.
If there are collector point perceptions understand that it is group think, if there are contradictions understand the reality is itself contradictory, and understand that loops that are long are really imaginary if the group itself is not in any proximity. In any case there is value in the mapping and changing the picture or representation of reality that you always had.
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TRIZ India Posts Sept 10
Me posting back at trizindia.org
http://trizindia.org/profiles/blogs/ifr-at-google
The above post is more of a stumbled upon example of Ideal Final Result.
http://trizindia.org/profiles/blogs/on-time-and-relationships
This post I have raised an important question on the problem definition tools, that has gone unheeded in both trizindia as well as TRIZ Developers forums. Except for Anoop Kurup acknowledging the problem.
Commitment versus Compliance part 2
I had identified a TRIZ contradiction on 2 parameters viz. quality and quantity of content base available in organizational knowledge bases. The next step after identifying the principles is the actual ideation. Principles that the contradiction matrix lists are in the same order of utility/importance. It took me exactly 40 minutes to come up with these ideas, it would useful for conducting this in a group setting and trying the same principle is the suggestion that came from my friend Prakash.
Here are the ideas… What do you think is absurd? Why do I ask this question, well
Albert Einstein says “If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it”.
13 Otherway around
1 create knowledge from beginning, instead of waiting till the end of the project
2 make knowledge creation/capture a continuous process, instead of a single AAR
3 allow all project members edit the knowledge instead of the select few
4 remove responsibility of SME/expert for knowledge creation and move the action to the knowledge seeker
5 instead of maintaining a knowledge base make it robust for all knowledge needs
6 push content (not email) where people can see relevance and access
7 move experts from project to project regularly
8 remove content from knowledge base that are never read/used to archives
32 Color Changes
9 make the seekers/creators role switch regularly
10 bright tag useful knowledgebase documents
11 tag knowledge creating people in various shades/belts/bands
12 alert system for inbred/non collaborative content creation
13 widget for recent changes across wiki with different color
14 make cross project wiki access/search possible
15 do not make public pages that are created by gamers unless seekers exist
15 Dynamization
16 every workproduct one wiki entry
17 every conversation one sense made
18 allow access from everywhere
19 allow access for everyone willing to create knowledge in context
20 divide wiki page into sections that are editable
21 create master from graph of wiki pages from links
22 make managers role optional
23 make managers role rotating
24 make content approver role rotating
25 make contributors into approvers and approvers into contributors
23 Feedback
26 create daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual reports of activity in knowledge base
27 report activity of managers to team
28 enlist customers in the collaboration system
29 survey usefulness of content pieces/large chunks
30 create bulletin boards for transactional needs
31 allow other project readers to write review or rate content
32 use half life to measure freshness of content
33 bring seeker and contributor face to face
24 intermediary
34 sub contract/delegate to new joinees for knowledge creation
35 video capture knowledge intensive tasks and avoid hard content creation
36 symbolise context for quicker description
18 Resonance
37 dont manage content/knowledge bases
38 find frequency/spiral dynamics colors/memes to which people respond
39 connect/couple resonating roles/people
40 inspire to believe in the system/medium (wiki) as a powerful enough to change the working life
Commitment Versus Compliance part 1
Case 1
Imagine this situation where you put together a bunch of mandates at various levels of management, till it reaches the last employee on knowledge capture or learning. May be you can just make a random metric based on contributions (you could complicate it by adding usage, pass through, linking, commenting, etc) to your organization’s knowledge base and give sufficient room to game for employees to have fun which anyway will happen!
Call it currency, credit, kunit, knol or whatever. And then set a target for people and indicate that it will influence somehow their variable pay. Don’t even have to promise anything!!
Case 2
Imagine another situation where you connect people with each other in the context of an unknown and allow them to build knowledge based on a mutual commitment they have.
No carrots, gold biscuits or credits. Just the connection.
QuaLity (very subjective) of knowledge or synthesized content (if any) that comes out from Case 2 is invariably higher than what comes out of Case 1.
QuaNTity that comes from just adopting Case 1 is way higher than Case 2.
Is this a TRIZ contradiction or what…open the contradiction matrix please
Parameter we want to improve is Production Spec/Quality/Means
Explanation: intended to be general in terms of quality of what is produced, and means by which it is achieved, can be both tangible and intangible
Parameter that worsens is Amount of Information
Explanation: though not needed some synonyms might help knowledge, memory, volume, archive, library, repository, search. Actually even antonyms are ok in TRIZ.
TRIZ Principles that are identified for the contradiction are
13 Other way around
Invert actions used
Make movable parts fixed or fixed part moving
Turn System process object upside down
32 Colour Changes
Change colour of object/environment
Change transparency of system or environment
15 Dynamization
Allow system characteristics to change to be optimal or find an optimal operating condition
Divide systems into part capable of movement relative to each other
Make system movable, flexible
23 Feedback
Introduce feedback
If already used change magnitude or influence
24 Intermediary
Use an intermediary carrier article or process
18 Resonance
Find resonant frequency
Ideas on the contradiction stated are now flowing from the TRIZ principles,…coming up soon
Triputi on 9 Windows
The concept of Triputi (observer, observed and the act of observing) was made famous by many thinkers like J Krishnamurti among many others, actually dates back more than 3000 years.
What am I trying?
Applying this on a Systematic Innovation Technique called 9 Windows.
How
When I used to create 9 windows or facilitate to create 9 windows I was limiting my self to one thing which is the observed. So I was only interested in the adjective /adverbs of the system around which the 9 windows is drawn.
E.g. Withdrawing cash from an ATM would have at its sub system level
Instrument: Card
Identity: PIN Entered
Instrument Verification: Over Secure Network and Payment Gateway
Transaction Verification: Generated from ATM
But the power of the technique only comes to surface when you add the other 2 dimensions of the triputi viz. the act of observing and also the observer.
You can view this as an account holder, a bank, a thief, a security guard in the atm, etc.
The action itself can be viewed at different levels like interaction with the machine, system, account, bank etc.
Add all these then you see the real 9 windows.
I also had in mind a thought on trends within 9 windows, may be later in another post.
